My knowledge of history is patchy at best. I've read
Judt on the post-war Europe, digested
several Preston books on the
Spanish Civil War, laid my hands on the two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler
(and, by extension, the Second World War) by
Kershaw and a bit more. Canada,
were I …

This blog uses Pelican, which is a pretty neat
way of having a set of text files written in
reStructuredText, or
Markdown, or perhaps some other
system (I haven't checked, I am comfortable with Markdown), compile them into
linked HTML files and having them uploaded to your hosting via SSH …

Twitter is an excellent tool for the troll armies out there, for endless and pointless entrenched discussion, for the digital archaeologist out there who wants to end your politics career, for wasting time and, last but not least, for discovering the eventual and rare link worth reading and for following …

The best social network in the world was Google Reader. People shared their links and posted brief comments on them. One then could do the same thing, and all in the place where the news articles, blog posts and webcomic strips were being read every day.

I did a very simple analysis on Spotify data to try to find the saddest and happiest songs out there. I created playlists with the results: saddest songs [Spotify, YouTube], happiest songs [Spotify, YouTube]. All the code used for this project is available here.

(This analysis was written at the same time I was writing the code and deciding how I should proceed. I have already read too many data analysis posts that give the final, correct and beautiful answer, and don't show all the problems encountered along the way. So, except for a …

Another weekend, another small visualization project with publicly available data I do. This time, I have tackled the problem of unemployment in Europe: how has it changed per country since the start of the crisis in 2007, and the posterior European debt meltdown? Surely we can plot it to have …